Improvement in combs for combing-machines



drin-D me @und time CHARLES WEILER, OF LANDENBERG, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO MARTIN 'LANDENBERGER & GO., 0F SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 113,825, dated April 18, 1871.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, CHAnLEs WEILER, of 'Landenberg, in the county ofChester and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Carrying and other Combs; and do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact descxiption thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon making a part of this specitication.

The nature of my invention consists in a new method ot' securing thepins in carrying, falling, and other combs for worsted machinery, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in Which-Figure 1 is a side View of my improved carryingcomb;

Figure 2 is a side view of my improved faller, showing how myimprovement may be applied to two rows of pins;

Figure 3 is a small portion of fig. 1, enlarged;

Figure f1 is a section of fig. 3 through line a: x,

Figure 5 is a small portion of lig. 2, enlarged;

Figure 6 is a section of' fig. 5 through line y y;

Figure 7 represents lig. 5 with the outer plate removed; and

Figure 8 is a plan view of fig. 7

In the old form of carrying and falling-combs the pins are inserted andsoldered into holes, and in event ofthe breaking ofthe pins they must bepunched out and replaced by others.

The expense together with the knowledge that the combs will only standtwo operations of the kind necessarily induces the manufacturer to deferit as long as possible, and the combs are generally in a very hadcondition when taken out, so much so that they often allow small piecesof uncombed wool to pass into the yarn.

The expense for every machine in a year is very large, whereas in myimproved combs this expense is almost entirely obviated, and a comb canbe repaired in afew minutes. lt' only one pin breaks it can be replacedimmediately, and the comb kept in excellent working condition, simply byremoving one or more plates and replacing the pin by a new one, thensecuring the said plate or plates again. rlhis simple operation can bedone without removing the comb from the machine.

A represents a bed-plate, made of any suitable metal, and a groove, a.,is made in thc same running the whole length of the plate at a uniformdistance from the edge.

.Lhe pins b b are constructed with a small hook at i the end, as shownin figs. 4 and 6, and they are laid 011 the bed-plate A, with the hookprojecting into the groove, which edectnally prevents them from pullingout. After they are laid in their places the plate or plates li arescrewed down on them and hold them fast.

The plates B are provided with a small strip, i, of leather or otherelastic material, immediately over the pins, to make np for anydeficiency in the bed-plate A.

W'hen the pins are placed some. distance apart, as shown in iig. 5, theconstruction is the same, except that grooves are formed in the bed, asat figs. 7 and 8, into which each pin is laid.

It is obvious that by this construction of a comb it will last as longas the machine it forms a part of, and altogether dispense with thenecessity ol' having 'dnplicate combs.

The groove for the insertion of the hook on the end of' the pin may beformed in the covering-plate B, or, ifa head is formed on the pininstead ot' a hook, there may be a groove in both the bed-plate and theeovering-plate.

Having thus fully described my invention,

Th-.tt l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V Thecomb for worsted machinery, consisting of the grooved bed-plate A, theplain pins b b constructed as described, having hooks ou their lowerends, and the covering-plate B, all substantially as and for thepurposes herein `set forth. Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this13th day of December,

CHARLES IVEILER.

Witnesses:

A. H. SHOEMAKER, MARTIN LANDENBEBGER, Jr.

